Further Reading: Eve Blau’s Baku: Oil and Urbanism
Baku—like Dubai and other major cities flush from the oil industry—has seen an upsurge of…
Topic Energy
Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
Democratic Energy: Abby Spinak on the relationship between climate change and capitalism
It is difficult to discuss the ongoing consequences of climate change without discussing its relationship…
The Humid Threshold: Cooling hot, humid climates via membrane dehumidification
by Pamela Lucia Cabrera Pardo (MDes '19) — Recipient of Daniel L Schodek Award for…
“Regenerative Empathy” exhibition shares studio’s findings with the French community that inspired it
Humans have exploited soil—truly, much of nature—for millennia. Soil can hold eras’ worth of stories…
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment
Regenerative Empathy: Complex Assemblages in a Shared Environment explores the relationship between humans and…
emPOWER Overtown
by Catherine McCandless (MUP '19) and Naomi Woods (MDes '19) Our project proposes a comprehensive solution…
AERIAL FUTURES: The Third Dimension
Increasing congestion and advances in autonomous technology are set to transform how we move around…
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities unveils HouseZero; data-driven infrastructure set to enable cutting-edge research, shift the design and operation of buildings
HouseZero’s advanced data-driven infrastructure will enable cutting edge research, aims to shift the design and…
Human-Building Interaction
Our research has highlighted the challenges of understanding, simulating, and designing for the complex interactions between…
Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design
This project proposed a framework for the development of early-design guidance to inform architects and policy-makers using…